Primary Responsibilities:
Consortium coordination and implementation oversight:
· Lead day-to-day consortium coordination and maintain a consolidated view of implementation progress, priorities, constraints, dependencies and emerging gaps across participating organizations.
· Coordinate development, maintenance and follow-up of the consolidated consortium implementation plan, including key milestones, responsibilities, sequencing and dependencies.
· Monitor overall partner performance against agreed deliverables and facilitate timely corrective action, support or escalation where implementation is off track.
· Facilitate cross-consortium problem-solving and ensure actions, owners and deadlines are clearly documented and followed through.
· Promote coherent, proportionate coordination that uses existing partner and IRC systems rather than creating duplicative structures.
Programmatic and geographic coherence:
· Coordinate consortium-level review of geographic and programmatic coverage to strengthen complementarity, reduce duplication and identify gaps requiring management attention.
· Facilitate relevant technical and operational coordination mechanisms to support harmonized approaches, referrals, de-duplication, implementation quality and adaptive management.
· Support coherent consortium engagement with relevant humanitarian coordination mechanisms, including Clusters/AoRs, through the appropriate technical leads.
· Ensure consortium planning and adaptation are informed by implementation evidence, access considerations, community feedback and changing humanitarian needs.
Governance, donor coordination and decision follow-up:
· Support effective consortium governance by preparing concise performance, risk and decision information for the appropriate governance and IRC management forums.
· Maintain clear decision, action and escalation tracking and ensure agreed actions are communicated and followed through.
· Serve as the principal routine CMU coordination focal point for UHF/OCHA, in coordination with relevant IRC leadership and functional leads.
· Coordinate timely consortium responses to UHF/OCHA requests, implementation questions, monitoring follow-up and actions arising from donor engagement.
· Identify material implementation changes or constraints early and coordinate internal review, escalation and donor engagement or approval processes where required.
Risk, assurance and integrated performance management:
· Maintain consolidated visibility of material consortium-level programmatic, operational, fiduciary, safeguarding, compliance and delivery risks, ensuring clear ownership and timely escalation.
· Integrate information from the Consortium Finance & Compliance Manager and Consortium MEAL, Accountability & Reporting Manager into a coherent picture of consortium performance.
· Coordinate consortium readiness for UHF/OCHA monitoring, reviews and other assurance processes, working through the relevant functional owners.
· Promote principled, accountable and collaborative ways of working across participating organizations, including meaningful participation of national and local partners.